not just alphago or autonomous driving but artificial intelligence is taking a human-like
form these days adidas tv has unveiled its first artificial intelligence anchor
that can speak both korean and english fluently modeled on adidas very own news anchor boon
young lg electronics also unveiled its virtual influencer and singer riya kim for more we are
joined by iit expert mr david lee founder and captain of dream and future labs also professor of
art and technology at taughang university mr lee thanks for coming on yeah thanks for inviting me
first these days virtual influencers based on ai technology is very much gaining popularity
so what's the reason yeah sure today um butchering producer is very popular especially sns platform
so the reason is that um the perturbing processor today made by 3d design
and portal and picture but recently some of the company like lg and also alien tv is trying to
adopt our ai team learning technology for for making more vivid expression like a real human
example eye movement facial expression and motion and gesture so that real vivid virtual influencer
coming out very soon in it is getting much popular in the people especially mg generation people
they love all avatar all 3d animation including virtual influencer so it's a huge opportunity for
for the company and also young people too right and i wonder what about in other countries are
virtual influencers also gaining popularity overseas yes this is worldwide trend today
one example um more than 140 the virtual human is acting on essence platform
this is much bigger than within and also the world's biggest top virtual influencer is
real michaela she's a brazilian american 20 years old she's a fashion model for libido
and also pop singer so last year she she her income was more than more than 13 million dollars
now all over the world many country is making them making uh bachelor influencer for
their sustainable branding what about advertising and also that virtual influencer virtual human
doesn't have any scandal to so that's one of the very big reasons they are playing huge market
about advertising on tv and sls interesting and to which extent do you think these virtual
humans can replace real humans i mean some are saying let humans do what they're good at and
let ais do what they're good at and how would you assess the future demand for
virtual humans according to market research company high volatile u.s base
yearly growth of the virtual human is 32 until 2025 and especially uh 2025 the virtual human
takes more than 50 of influencing market this is a huge huge demand so virtual human they
are playing on sms and tv show advertising and musical and opera including tv news anchor too
so i i know that the janitor alien tv is developing so that jennifer also
delivered the real news 24 hours any place anytime any virus any pandemic yeah and finally
we can also think about their economic impact so how do you say in terms of virtual human market
outlook i think it could also be an opportunity for startups too
yep so high volatile market research data again virtually impressive market size is this year
15 million dollar they are forecasting and 2025 they are focusing more than 36 billion dollars
so this is more than double within three years so virtual human and and virtual world
we call verbose so marabo's variables is now a big opportunity so many companies
the big giant company facebook they are changing company name to meta and also all major korean
companies the big size was small size and even startup is a very big opportunity to
develop virtual platform metabolism platform and virtual implosion too so that's a new transporting
opportunity and you changing technology today all right uh mr david lee founder of dream and future
labs and art and technology professor at saogong university many thanks for your insights thank you